Youth and social action

The goal of this project is to continue additional support to the groups formed in programme Becoming a Citizen, or to the groups which are already active in their regions.

With this programme we are impelling young people to aim towards solving problems in their communities. Distinct stress is on strengthening initiatives of youth in civil sector and on local authorities.

Through realization of this programme we want to fulfil following goals:

• Supporting youth groups to actively participate in solving problems in local community
• Giving knowledge and skills to young people which they can use for their engagement in community
• Supporting local activities which are organized by young people
• Enabling of cooperation between young people and local authorities, local NGOs and other relevant institutions in community.

This project was started in June, 2002, with the cooperation of Institute for Sustainable Communities (USA), Youth Build (USA), CHF and local youth groups from Aleksinac and Babušnica. In this pilot faze of the project we attained great success with the group from Aleksinac, which organized large number of mini forums, local activities and realized project "Cinema club". Today, they are registered youth non-governmental organization "Talas" which is dealing with incensement of participating of young people in the life of the local community. At the moment, they are starting realization of two new projects: "You can do it as well (BCIF) and "Professional canter for young people" (CHF).
During the years 2003 and 2004, activities of these projects were successfully realized in u Zajecar and Bor, where groups organized number of activities and where young people became significant participants in organizing life of the community.
In the following years, we are planning to continue with the support to these groups and, in that way, contribute their sustainability.